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What's your top speed? I feel like mine should be going faster... Planes in about 4 seconds and everything feels and sounds great but I max at 46 mph on GPS when I rat it at 4,900 RPM yesterday. Feels like I have more gas left in the throttle when it reads 4,900 but I know max is 5,000 so I don't want to push it down any further... 4 blade prop.

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What's your top speed? I feel like mine should be going faster... Planes in about 4 seconds and everything feels and sounds great but I max at 46 mph on GPS when I rat it at 4,900 RPM yesterday. Feels like I have more gas left in the throttle when it reads 4,900 but I know max is 5,000 so I don't want to push it down any further... 4 blade prop.

Put the hammmer down, she's got a rev limiter. I hit 56-57 best.

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Are you certain of that? I was under the impression that you can over-rev if your prop doesn't match the conditions.... If so that's great to know, I'm gonna do just that! All the fun happens past 50 mph...

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My 225 SSI with the 5.0 GXI into an SX will hit 45 on glass smooth water with about perfect conditions and 1-2 passengers. On a perfect day, with the wind at my back, I've seen 47, but that was a 'unicorn' event.

That's the one tiny thing I miss about my jet boat--60+ was doable in the right conditions.

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I can see a 236 with a 8.1L doing 60+ lightly loaded, at sea level and cool weather pretty easily. I was hitting 53-54 on the GPS with 24p 3/3 props at 4700 WOT RPM with my 264 at 1100 ft above sea level on at 80 degrees.